Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-05-13

endure the wilderness march If it is going
to end in the vineyards and orchards of the
promised land. But you say: "Will the
womanly clerks in our stores have pro-
motion!" Yes. Time is coming when
women will be as we'll paid for their toll in
mercantile circles as men are now paid for
their toll. Time is coming when woman
will be allowed to do anything she can do
we'll. 1t is only little.while ago when
women knew nothing of telegraphy, and
they were kept out of great many COM
mercial circles where they are now well
come; and the time will go on until the
woman who at one counter in store sells
So 900 worth of goods in year will get
as high salary as the man WHO at the other
counter of the same store sells $10.0DO
worth of goods. All honor to Lydia, the
[ may as we'll say that you merchants who
have female clerks in your stores ought to
treat them with great courtesy and kind
ness. When they are not positively en-
gagged. let them sit down. In England and
the United States physicians have protested
against the habit of compelling the wo-
manly clerks in the stores to stand. There
fore, add to the protest of physicians the
protest of the Christian Church, and in
the name of good health, and that God who
has made the womanly constitution more
y
her sit down.
The second counsel have to give to the
clerks who are here to-day is that you seek
out what are the lawful regulations of your
establishment, and then submit to them.
Every well-ordered house has its usages.
In military life, on ships deck, in COM
mercial life, there must be order and disci-
pline. Those people who do not learn how
to obey will never know how to command.
I will tell you what young man will reach
ruin, financial and moral; it is the young
and says: "Nobody shall dictate to me; I
am my own master; will not submit to
the regulations of this house." Between
an establishment in which all the employees
are under thorough discipline and the es-
Enlistment in which the employees do about
as they choose is the difference between
success and failure-between rapid ac-
emulation and utter bankruptcy. Do not
come to the store ten minutes after time.
Be there within two seconds after. Do not
think anything too insignificant to do we'll.
Do not say, cts only once" From the
most important transaction in commerce
down to the particular style in which you
tie string around bundle, obey orders.
Do not get easily disguised. While others
i'll the store may lounge, or fret, or COM
plain, you go with ready hands and cheer
full face and contented spirit to your work.
When the bugle sounds, the good soldier
asks no questions, but shoulders his KNAPP
sack, fills his canteen and listens for the
command of "March!" Do not get the
idea that your interests and those of your
employer IRE antagonistic. His success
will be your honor. His embarrassment
frailties of the firm. Tell no store secrets.
Do not blab. Rebuff those persons who
come to find out from clerks what ought
never be known outside the store. Do not
be among those young men who take on q
mysterious air when something is said
against the firm that employs them, as
much as to say: 81 could tell you some
things if I would, but WON'T" Do not
be among those who imagine they can
build themselves up by pulling somebody
else down. Be not ashamed to be subal.
tern.
Again counsel clerks in this house to
search out what are the unlawful and dis
honest demands of an establishment and
resist them. In the 5000 years that have
passed there has never been an occasion
when it was ones duty to sin against God.
1t is never right 10 do wrong. If the head
men of the firm expect of you dishonesty,
disappoint them. ooh" you say, II should
lose my place them" Better lose your place
than lose your soul. But you will not lose
your place. Christian heroism is always
honored. You go to the head men Of your
store and say "Sir, l want to serve you; I
want to oblige you; it is from no lack of in
dustry on my part, but this thing seems to
me to be wrong, and it is a sin against my
conscience; it is sin against God, and I
beg you, sir, to excuse me-" He may flush
up and swear, but he will cool down and he
will have more admiration for you than for
those who submit to his evil dictation; and
while they sink you will rise. Do not, be-
cause of seeming temporary advantage, give
up your character, young man. Under
God that is the only thing to build on. Give
up that, you give upeverything. That en-
for time and for eternity who expects him
to make wrong entry or change an invoice,
or say goods cost SO much when they cost
less: or impose upon the verdancy of GUS
toner OF misrepresent a style of fabric.
How dare he demand of you anything so
insolent?
There is one style of temptation that
comes on great many of our clerks, and
that is upon those who are engaged in what
is called drumming" Now, that occupa-
ton is just as honorable as any other, if ii
be conducted in accord with ones con-
science. nthis day, when there are so many
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establishments ought to have men abroad
who are seeking out for opportunities of
merchandise. There can be no objection
to that. But there are professed Christian
merchants in the week night prayer meet
ing who have clerks abroad in New York
conducting merchants of Cincinnati and
Chicago and st. Louis through the de-
baucheries of the great town in order to
secure the custom for the store: There are
in stores in New York and Brooklyn drawers
in which there are kept moneys which the
clerks are to 60 to and get whatever they
want to conduct these people through the
designations of the city. The head men of
the firm wink of il, and in some places
actually demand sit-prefessed Christian
merchants. One would think that the
prayer would freeze on their lips and they
would fall back dead at the sound of their
own song. What chance is there for young
men when commercial establishments ex-
pect such things of them? Among all
Kings internal, pronounce that the most
damnable. Young man, how will that firm
treat YOU when you are utterly despoiled
and dragged out with sin going through the
haunts of iniquity for the purpose of get
ting customers for their store? How will
they treat you? Oh, they will give you a
pension! They will build you fine house
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